Steve Quayle, ruminating about the Pope and Catholics, and, of course,
the anti-christ. I need to start a Catholic shortwave Patriot show so
that I can spend my day disrespecting Protestant Patriot shortwave hosts.
According to Steve, News Max is mainstream news. Ok.

Anyway, as usual, the anti-christ will come from the ranks of the
Catholic Church. What would it take to get George Noory moved to
shortwave and on Steve's time slot, at least George talks about credible
things. I guess that Steve doesn't have many Catholic listeners, well, he
probably doesn't have many listeners anyway, perhaps some foreigners that
can't speak English and is using his show as background noise.

I can see that Steve's comments will certainly elicit a response from
some in this group, using Steve as a credible source, after all, he is
mainstream media. I am amazed by his ability to continue speaking for the
length of the show, yet he never says anything of note. He peruses the
daily news, probably on Drudge and News Max, and makes predictions of
things that have never come true. Sooner or later he will be right.

He is now feigning the "Steve is the preacher" disguise, saying a prayer
for a child that has been kidnapped or killed or some such thing. He and
his wife, he says, are granted the things that they pray for. I wish he
would pray for a full time show on some TV channel that I don't have.
This is too much, he is now saying that a listener had her computer reset
by the devil when Steve was discussing the anti-christ, and continues
with believing that "Anomalous Events" plague his show.

On a lighter note, having FINALLY obtained a copy of the RT Systems
programming software for the Alinco DJ-X10T wideband handheld, I was
anxious to use it. Problem is that it was only available on a floppy
disk, and my laptop doesn't have the drive.

So I'll take it to work, and copy it there, transferring it to a USB
memory stick. I get to work, and the 2 computers that I tried said that
the floppy wasn't formatted. OK, I just paid $27 for a used blank disk.
Great. I stopped at my son's house, and while there, I'll have a try
again. It reads the floppy. Very Good. Problem is that the memory stick
that I have won't Plug n' Pray with Win 98, which he has. I need the
driver, but would need to go online. He has no internet connection, so I
create one, and use my dial up account to mail the file to myself.

Now I finally have control over my life. Go home, download the e-mail,
find the required e-mail, click on it, and I am told that Outlook Express
has protected me from an attachment that might be dangerous. I don't even
seem to have the option of "click here if you want to risk it". I had to
go online, find out how to recover my attachment, (turn off the
protection in Outlook Express, close then reopen the program, open the
mail again), save it to the drive, and Viola, I finally have it.

And thank God, as the radio has 1200 memories, of which 1190 were wiped
out when I tried to use Pope's (please Al, I'm serious on this issue, his
first name is Bruce) free DOS program for programming the memories.

Install the program and it actually works. I really like the DJ-X10T, it
is an all mode, very wideband receiver. It does shortwave, including USB
and LSB. RT Systems stopped selling the software for it since they had
too many problems with one facet of their program (they claim, probably
correctly, that the radio design was flawed). Supposedly the program can
be used to program the memories without problem, but the Radio Control
feature of the program can lock the radio up when the timing becomes a
problem (radio and software sending at the same time) .

Regards,

Dr. Artaud